Agenda-setting theory, the most popular theory in mass communication,
has expanded to other areas beyond communication including business,
history, finance, politics and sports. Dr. Maxwell McCombs (University
of Texas at Austin) and his research partner, Dr. Donald Shaw
(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), introduced the theory in
1972. The original article has been cited in more than 6,000 studies.
Originally, McCombs and Shaw’s term “agenda setting” showed a
correspondence between the order of importance given in the media to
issues and the order of significance attached to the same issues by the
public and politicians.

While the essence of the definition remains the same, the
idea has exploded into an internationally-recognized, maturing and
expanding theory. A research tradition focused on the interface of the
mass media agenda and the public agenda has been used by
scholars/academics, industry professionals and think tanks globally to
explain political, economic, historical, social, sociological,
psychological, sports-centric, health-related, medicinal,
business-oriented, technological and more concepts.

The Agenda Setting Journal: Theory, Practice, Critique
focuses on the theoretical developments that continue in agenda setting
and how the theory is applied to areas outside of mass communication.
The journal also represents the growth and maturity of the communication
field as it is also the first and only to-date theory-based journal in
the communication discipline.

<p>AILA Review is a refereed publication of the <em>Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée</em>, an international federation of national associations for applied linguistics. All volumes are guest edited.</p><p>As of Volume 16, 2003, AILA Review is published with John Benjamins.</p>

<p>As of volume 8 (2010) this annual is continued as a journal: <a href="/content/journals/1877976x"><em>Review of Cognitive Linguistics</em></a></p><p>The <em>Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics</em> (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective. Fruitful debate is encouraged with neighboring academic disciplines as well as with other approaches to language study, particularly functionally-oriented ones.</p>

<p>The <em>Annual Review</em> was devoted to research in the domain of first language acquisition, i.e., the process of acquiring command of a first language, and studies in which first language acquisition was compared to second language acquistion, as well as studies on language acquisition under abnormal conditions. </p><p><em>Publication discontinued as of volume 3 (2003).</em></p>

Applied Pragmatics aims to enhance research on acquisitional pragmatics and hence accepts studies which have strong implications for teaching, learning, and assessing L2 pragmatics, including L2 English and other languages. We encourage submissions from a wide range of topics falling within the scope of the journal. The topics can be approached from various interdisciplinary perspectives like globalization, world Englishes, teacher education, critical pedagogy, and conversation analysis.

This
journal aims to report research on the description and analysis of variation
and change from the Asia-Pacific region. The journal encourages research that
is firmly based on empirical data and quantitative analysis of variation and
change as well as the social factors that are reflected and constructed through
language variation and change. Though much of the research is expected to be
based on new speech data and fieldwork, the language data may be either oral or
written, including both modern and historical resources. The unique emphasis of
the journal is to promote understanding of the multifaceted linguistic
communities of Asia-Pacific.

The Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) is the journal
of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA). The aim of the
journal is to present research in a wide range of areas, but in particular
research that is relevant to the particular region of the world that it covers.
The journal aims to promote the development of links between language related
research and its application in educational, professional, and other language
related settings. Areas that are covered by the journal include first and
second language teaching and learning, bilingualism and bilingual education,
the use of technologies in language teaching and learning, corpus linguistics,
discourse analysis, translation and interpreting, language testing, language
planning, academic literacies and rhetoric.

John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher as of Volume 39
(2016). Volumes 29 (2006) - 38 (2015) are available as open access under a CC BY-NC license.

Babel is a scholarly journal designed primarily for translators, interpreters and terminologists (T&I), yet of interest also for nonspecialist concerned with current issues and events in the field.

The scope of Babel is intentional and embraces a multitude of disciplines built on the following pillars: T&I theory, practice, pedagogy, technology, history, sociology, and terminology management. Another important segment of this journal includes articles on the development and evolution of the T&I professions: new disciplines, growth, recognition, Codes of Ethics, protection, and prospects.

The creation of Babel was proposed on the initiative of Pierre-François Caillé, founding president of the Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs (FIT) and approved by the first FIT Congress of 1954 in Paris. Babel continues to be published for FIT and each issue contains a section dedicated to THE LIFE OF FIT.

Articles for Babel are normally published in English or French but we also accept articles in Arabic, Chinese, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

The <em>Belgian Journal of Linguistics</em> is the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium and includes selected contributions from the international meetings organized by the LSB. Its volumes are topical and address a wide range of subjects in different fields of linguistics and neighboring disciplines (e.g. translation, poetics, political discourse). The <em>BJL</em> transcends its local basis, not only through the international orientation of its active advisory board, but also by inviting international scholars, both to act as guest editors and to contribute original papers. Articles go through an external and discriminating review process with due attention to ensuring the maintenance of the journal's high-quality content.

Bestia presents articles dealing with the beast fable and its sister
genres in all literatures, languages and periods. It yearly publishes a
selection of the most distinguished papers read at the annual
International Congress of the Beast Fable Society.<br />

<p>This journal is devoted to the philosophy of antiquity and the Middle Ages. It concentrates on research documenting the connections between ancient and medieval philosophy; focuses on the interrelations among various cultural and philosophical traditions, such as the Arabic, Judaic, Byzantine and Latin; informs about major research trends in ancient and medieval philosophy and publish reviews of important new studies in these fields; offers a forum for discussions of controversial or divergent interpretations of these topics; presents previously unpublished sources and translations too short to appear in another format; and features a miscellany of reports and information, including interviews with prominent scholars.</p><p> In keeping with its international character, the journal publishes contributions in English, German, French, and Italian. The journal does not aim only to appeal to professional historians of philosophy, but also intends to publish introductory articles of interest to students which along with new source material and lively interviews should provide a fresh perspective on and unique access to ancient and medieval thought.</p>

Chinese as a Second Language — The journal
of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA (CSL) is the academic journal
of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA (CLTA). CSL publishes
original high-quality scholarly contributions in English or Chinese (both
simplified and traditional characters).

Articles must be related to one of the
research areas: 1. All areas of Chinese language pedagogy; 2. Linguistic
analysis of Chinese, especially as it pertains to the teaching of Chinese; 3.
The use of Chinese literature in the teaching of Chinese.

John Benjamins Publishing Company is the
official publisher as of Volume 51 (2016).

<p>A peer-reviewed journal which seeks to publish original work on Chinese and related languages, with a focus on current topics in Chinese discourse studies. The notion of <em>discourse</em> is a broad one, emphasizing an empirical orientation and encompassing such linguistic fields as language and society, language and culture, language and social interaction, discourse and grammar, communication studies, and contact linguistics. Special emphasis is placed on systematic documentation of Chinese usage patterns and methodological innovations in explaining Chinese and related languages from a wide range of functionalist perspectives, including, but not limited to, those of Conversation Analysis, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, grammaticalization, cognitive linguistics, typological and comparative studies.</p><p>The journal also publishes review articles as well as discussion topics. Exchanges of research views between authors and readers are also encouraged.</p>

Cognitive Linguistic Studies is an interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary journal of cognitive linguistics, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience. It explores implications from and for psycholinguistic, computational, neuroscientific, cross-cultural and cross-linguistic research. <br /><br />Cognitive Linguistic Studies provides a forum for high-quality linguistic research on topics which investigate the interaction between language and human cognition. It offers new insights not only into linguistic phenomena but also into a wide variety of social, psychological, and cultural phenomena. The journal welcomes authoritative, innovative cognitive scholarship from all viewpoints and practices. <br />

<p>This problem-driven journal focused on the role of social research in workplace reform and organizational renewal. It presented new perspectives on the relationship between theory and practice in social science. </p><p><em><strong>Volume 9 (2004) last volume published.</strong></em></p>

<p><em>Constructions and Frames</em> is an international peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for construction-based approaches to language analysis. Constructional models emphasize the role of constructions, as conventional pairings of meaning and form, in stating language-specific and cross-linguistic generalizations and in accounting equally for regular and semi-regular patterns. Frame Semantics, which has become a semantic complement of some constructional approaches, elaborates the analysis of form-meaning relationships by focusing on lexical semantic issues that are relevant to grammatical structure. The preoccupation of constructional theories with meaning allows for natural integration of grammatical inquiry with semantic, pragmatic, and discourse research; often coupled with corpus evidence, this orientation also enriches current perspectives on language acquisition, language change, and language use. </p><p><em>Constructions and Frames</em> publishes articles which range from descriptions of grammatical phenomena in different languages to constructionally-oriented work in cognitive linguistics, grammaticalization theory, typology, conversation analysis and interactional linguistics, poetics, and sociolinguistics. Articles that explore applications to or implications for related fields, such as communication studies, computational linguistics, lexicography, psychology, and anthropology are also invited.</p><p>The aim of the journal is to promote innovative research that extends constructional approaches in new directions and along interdisciplinary paths.</p>

<p><em>Diachronica </em>provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of information concerning all aspects of language change in any and all languages of the globe. Contributions which combine theoretical interest and philological acumen are especially welcome.</p><p><em>Diachronica </em>appears four times per year, publishing articles, review articles, book reviews, and a miscellanea section including notes, reports and discussions.</p>